Formwork

An ongoing construction site.
Formwork is an independent design studio founded by Barbara Virginia Tedeschi (IT) and César Bourgeois (FR), working across visual communication, art direction, and spatial thinking.

We guide projects through their formation. We are drawn to ideas in the making — unstable, unfinished, and full of potential. We work to develop solid foundations, building structures designed to hold and evolve over time. Alongside client work, Formwork operates as a Lab. A space for independent exploration, where ideas can exist outside of immediate application. These experiments generate friction, producing noise that feeds back into commissioned projects.

Services

Art Direction

Typography

Exhibition Design

Editorial Design

Brand Identity

Website Design

Clients
Nekua
Massimo Osti Studio

Selle Royal Group

Under

Maison Chimère

info@formworkstudio.eu, @formworkstudio.eu

Services

Art Direction

Typography

Exhibition Design

Editorial Design

Brand Identity

Website Design

Clients
Nekua
Massimo Osti Studio

Selle Royal Group

Under

Maison Chimère

info@formworkstudio.eu, @formworkstudio.eu

A curatorial project for C.P. Company and Massimo Osti Studio, built around the archive of the Bolognese designer who redefined the boundaries of contemporary sportswear. The retrospective moves through original archive pieces, books, photographs, fabric samples, notes and sketches, tracing a career built on research rather than trend: from the brands Osti founded across four decades, to his working method — graphics, military reference, garment dyeing, textile innovation — to fourteen emblematic pieces that each mark a turning point in his practice. The exhibition reads Osti not as a stylist in the traditional sense, but as a disciplined engineer-designer, for whom function and comfort came before fashion.

Curated by: Formwork Studio

In collaboration with: Archivio Massimo Osti

Photography: DSL Studio

Project type: Exhibition

Year: 2025

Client: C.P. Company, Massimo Osti Studio

Venue: Palazzo Pepoli, Bologna

Dates: 7 June — 28 September 2025